[GURPS] - Sheet #1 - Thread 3

Hi Mike and GURPs players, I posted this over on the Pull Request itself, but wanted to put it here for visibility: I completely appreciate that this is an unwelcome development. I understand that this sheet has been on Roll20 for a long time, however, it does, and has been, breaking our code of conduct for sheets during that time. Often, sheets that have been in the system for a long time are not subject to the same sorts of rigorous examination that we’d provide a new sheet added to the system, and so for that reason it has gone unaddressed until this latest update was flagged for additional consideration by an internal process. Unfortunately, it’s pretty self evident from both our Code of Conduct, but also Steve Jackson Games’ own policy that this cannot be considered an appropriate use of this material: SJ GAMES ONLINE POLICY ... Post (or make available for download) forms, charts, tables and text from one of your games? No; that is a violation of copyright. We understand that it is convenient to gamers if some forms and charts are online, and we have already posted many of them ourselves. You should look at our page for the game you are interested in, to see if perhaps we have already posted the material you want. But we can’t give permission to put more and more of each game on the web . . . eventually the whole text would be online, for free, and we couldn’t sell any books . . . ... (Emphasis mine) Roll20 Character Sheet Submission Code of Conduct Do not infringe on intellectual property. Community sheets should not include character creation or advancement due to potential copyright restrictions ...&nbsp; It’s okay to have attributes that auto-calculate based on other attributes (including the current level). We’ll let you know if your submitted sheet violates this rule. That being said, I think we are all aligned that we would like to see the sheet returned to the VTT. So, here’s what can happen next: Option 1: &nbsp;The sheet authors could contact Steve Jackson Games and ask for written permission to use their material in this way. If someone verifiably from that organization reaches out to our licensing team (<a href="mailto:licensing@roll20.net" rel="nofollow">licensing@roll20.net</a>) to provide confirmation of this arrangement, we’ll be able to reinstate the sheet. Option 2: The sheet authors could remove the rules content and tables from the source code of this sheet, and require players to enter this information themselves. Again, I can only sympathize with your frustration, and echo the sentiment that this is a situation that none of us want to be in, but that it is our duty to support our partners and prevent their work from being used in ways that they have explicitly forbidden. I hope we can come to a satisfactory resolution for all of us.